GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 742069
gnome-panel move elements visible and ugly
Last modified: 2020-11-06 20:24:20 UTC
Moving elements is visible and ugly on gnome-panel in trusty(14.04) gnome-fallback, package version 1:3.8.0-1ubuntu12.1 and in vivid package version gnome-panel (1:3.14.0-1~ubuntu1). Same gnome-panel works OK in 12.04 . Look screenshot for more plain explanation.
Created attachment 293407 [details] move elements visible and ugly
Did you report this to Ubuntu's bugtracker already and someone said that this is an upstream problem?
Yep, I reported that to ubuntu bugtracker first.(no answer) But when I asked my friend on Fedora, and he try, he said that he have that bug too. Anyway that bug should be fixed in upstream. (at least I hope, since I wait with upgrade from ubuntu 12.04 to 14.04 with that issue unresolved).
If that also happens on Fedora I'd love to know which environment was used.
On ubuntu is gnome-fallback on Fedora it will be gnome3 gnome-classic mode or something like that. (is called gnome-classic-session, found after some googling) In my case is not expanded gnome-panel in center with Menu bar applet added. Most people use full screen expanded panel(I personally use minimal panels), so they don't see that ugly moving elements. In old versions when that elements worked they where invincible and used only for moving panel. Elements can be hidded with "show hide buttons" settings, but that solution will add two hide buttons on corners that looks not so nice and takes place.
What's the report in Ubuntu's bugtracker? URLs are always welcome. gnome-classic does not use gnome-panel at all since GNOME 3.8 - that's why I asked. gnome-flashback does. No idea about gnome-fallback.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-panel/+bug/1380300 gnome-session-fallback is transitional package to gnome-session-flashback at least in ubuntu, in 12.04 it was called gnome-session-fallback, and after that they renamed it to flashback. Any way no difference here. That bug is in gnome-panel. As admin, I tried even backporting gnome-session-fallback (full gnome3) from 12.04 to 14.04 but that was much more hugger pain that I thought. That bug really pisses me on.
Created attachment 293481 [details] More detail screenshoot With "show hide buttons" option in panel settings that ugly moving elements is invincible or just replaced with hide buttons. I used gimp scarp image to show that that ugly elements is real moving elements with some dots on them.
This won't be fixed in current releases. But it might change in 3.16 where it will be fully up to theme designers how these move elements looks. Currently there is no way to disable dots without hacking code.
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